Tag: drug abuse
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Three more Kentucky counties, two of them rural, recently approved needle exchanges, making six counties with them
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Jessamine, Carter and Elliott counties are the latest Kentucky counties to approve needle exchange programs, joining Fayette (Lexington), Jefferson (Louisville) and Pendleton counties. The...
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More in state say they know someone hurt by use of heroin, especially in Northern Kentucky
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky chart; click on it for larger version Northern Kentucky is the hotbed of heroin addiction in Kentucky, but use of the narcotic appears to be...
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Conway gets $24 million from Purdue Pharma to settle Oxycontin claim, $15.5 million from J & J subsidiary in Risperdal case
Purdue Pharma will pay the state $24 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the drug maker “illegally misrepresented and/or concealed the highly addictive nature of OxyContin and encouraged doctors...
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Needle exchanges don’t have to involve exchanges of needles, attorney general’s opinion says
Users of needles don’t have to trade in used ones to get new ones from needle-exchange programs authorized by this year’s anti-heroin law, Attorney General Jack Conway said in a...
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Some local officials reject needle exchanges and research showing that they don’t encourage and enable drug abuse
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Needle-exchange programs were approved this year as part of a landmark heroin bill, but they require local consent, and this caveat is proving to...
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UK and Wake Forest researchers get $6.4 million to keep developing new therapy for cocaine abuse and overdose
Three professors at the University of Kentucky and one at Wake Forest University have received $6.4 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to keep developing “a promising new...
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Beshear puts health work first in list of his accomplishments, but doesn’t mention controversial topics by name
Gov. Steve Beshear With the end of his eight years as governor in clear view (his last day in office is Dec. 7), Steve Beshear put his work for Kentucky’s...
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$3 million allocated to 10 local jails for substance-abuse treatment programs; final round of $10 million in funding from heroin bill
In the final delivery of the $10 million that was appropriated in this year’s anti-heroin legislation, more than $3 million is being distributed to provide substance-abuse treatment for both county...
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Ky. pharmacists can now fill orders for a lifesaving anti-overdose drug without a doctor’s order, but at greater expense
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Pharmacists across Kentucky can now fill orders for naloxone, including the nasal-spray Kentucky-developed version, used to treat opioid and heroin overdoses, without a prescription....
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Ky. to get $940,000 more a year to fight prescription drug abuse and heroin; top drug-abuse fighter coming to Ky. for workshop
The federal government will give Kentucky another $940,000 a year for the next four years to fight prescription drug abuse and heroin. The money is part of a new program...